FRENCH COURT : RIGHT -TO- DIE

A FRENCH court on Thursday upheld a decision by doctors to withdraw life support for a man kept alive in a vegetative state for a decade, after-

The latest legal challenge by the patient's parents in a divisive right-to-die case.

Vincent Lambert, 42, was left a tetraplegic after a car accident in 2008, with doctors later determining that his severe brain damage was irreversible.

Under French law, doctors then decided to remove the intravenous food and water keeping Lambert alive, a move backed by his wife and six of his eight brothers and sisters. [Agencies]